TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2194, 31 July 1886, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Tk Aroha, Friday. Thk smallness ot the sum which the Government proposes to grant this year for improvements at the baths will necessarily put a great restriction upon the Domain Board in carrying out their comprehensive and elaborate designs for increasing the usefulness of the springs and enhancing the attractions of the grounds. With the limited amount they will have at their disposal, the board will be enabled to undertake only a very few of the works which it was their intention to take in land during the coining summer, and the improvements to be made will be almost wholly in the way of providing more bathing accommodation. The engineer, Mr H. Crump, is now prepaiing plans on a reduced scale, of those works most urgently needed, and as soon as these have been approved of at Wellington, operations will be commenced and pushed on to completion,' so that the new springs to be utilised may be in readiness for the largely increased number of visitors duiing the approaching season. A meeting of the Improvement Committees of Waiorongomai and Te Aroha is to be held this evening to ai range the preliminaries for the amalgamation of the two townships in the projected borough. To these bodies the residents have entrusted the care of their interests, and it is to be hoped their deliberations will be conducted with wisdom and moderation, so that a settlement may be arrived at which will be satisfactory to the inhabitants of both places. The consecration of the new building for the Church of England will not take place so early as was anticipated. It was expected that the ceremony would have been performed immediately after the completion of the edifice, but owing to pressure of other engagements Bishop Cowie cannot come to Te Aroha before the 22nd prox. The delay in opening the church occasions some regret among the congregation who, now that the new structure is ready, are desirous of vacating as quickly as possible their present unsuitable place of wot ship. Most of the Maoris who left the Hauraki and Ohinemuii districts to attend the Native Lands Court at Kihikihi have now returned to their homes. A large party, numbering some fifty or sKty, passed through here yesterday on their way to the Paeroa and other settlements down the river. The weather, which for the last two or three weeks, and considering that the month of .Inly is usually a wet one, has been remarkably clear and bracing:, seems now about to change. A mild bitnyc has sot in from the north-east, and other indications aio noticeable that a fall of lain may shortly be oxpectod.

Mi N R. Cox, Hamilton, notifies that he mil continue hib rlouring s.Ji» for a few days lo: £fr, as lie has .i lot oi lotnii.mts to < lc.ir. Attention is dirtvtcd to the lare;o sale of books, &c , Sec . .it the Hamilton Hook Depot this afternoon, Mr John Knox will conduct tho auction.